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Practice #2 Gerunds and Infinitives - answers

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Early automobiles

Many inventors were trying _to build_ gas-powered, self-propelled
build

vehicles in the late 1800's. A French inventor succeeded in

_creating_ a steam-powered tricycle in 1769. A German engineer,
create

Niklaus August Otto, is known for _inventing_ the four-stroke
invent

gas-powered engine in 1876. Both Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz

managed _to build_ and _sell_ autos in Germany in the 1880s.
build sell

By 1898 there were 50 companies responsible for _marketing_ cars in
market

in the United States alone. That number happened _to expand_ to
expand

241 by 1908. It was in 1908 when Henry Ford started _to make OR making_ automotive
make

history. It was in that year that he managed _to put_ together the
put

first assembly line and _lower_ the price of automobiles so that
lower

everyone could buy one. He began _to arrange OR arranging_ workers so that they could
arrange

each do a small part of the job in sequence. This prevented _repeating_
repeat

a lot of unnecessary steps in the assembly process. By 1913 he managed

_to produce_ 250,000 cars a year. His first mass-produced car, the
produce

Model T, guaranteed _to give_ modest-income Americans decent
give

transportation for a reasonable ($500 USD!) price.

Henry Ford went on _to lead_ the U.S. automobile industry for
lead

many years. Though he tried, he failed _to get_ elected to
get

the U.S. Senate in 1918. His company was started with just $28,000

and, by 1913, managed _to pay_ dividends of $11 million.
pay

While Ford declined _to give_ away more than a modest amount
give

during his lifetime, the Ford Foundation arranges _to donate_
donate

millions of dollars each year to deserving causes.